Publications:
Peer-reviewed
Thompson, R.M., Hemberg, M., Starzomski, B.M., and Shurin, J. Accepted. Trophic
levels and trophic tangles: the prevalence of omnivory in real food webs.
Ecology.
Thompson, R.M.
and B.M. Starzomski. 2006 What does biodiversity do? A review for managers and policy-makers . Biodiversity and Conservation
Starzomski, B.M., B.J. Cardinale, J.A. Dunne, M.J. Hillery, C.A.
Holt, M.A. Krawchuk, M. Lage, S. McMahon, and M. C. Melnychuk. 2004
. Contemporary visions of progress in ecology, and thoughts for the
future. Young Scholars’ Dialogue. Ecology and Society 9(1):14
[online] pdf http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art14/index.html
Starzomski, B.M. and Srivastava, D.S. 2004.
What science tells us about ecosystems, for ecosystem-based management. Proceedings
of the 5th Science and Management of Protected Areas Conference- Making Ecosystem
Based Management Work: Connecting Managers and Researchers, May 2003.
Starzomski, B.M. and Bondrup-Nielsen, S. 2002.
Analysis of movement dynamics and consequences for metapopulation structure
of the forked fungus beetle, Bolitotherus cornutus (Tenebrionidae).
Ecoscience 9(1):20-27. pdf
Starzomski, B.M. and
Bondrup-Nielsen, S. 2002. Self-organization in ecosystem structure and
function: implications for environmental management. In: Eds.
Bondrup-Nielsen, S., Munro, N.W.P., Nelson, G., Willison, N.W.P.,
Herman, T.B. and P. Eagles. Managing Protected Areas in a Changing
World. Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Science and the
Management of Protected Areas. pp. 505-514.
Submitted
Starzomski, B.M. and D.S. Srivastava.
Landscape geometry determines community response to disturbance.
Starzomski, B.M. and D.S. Srivastava. Predation overwhelms a processing chain in a bromeliad-insect food web..
Ngai, J.T., K. Kirby, B. Gilbert, B.M. Starzomski, A.J.D. Pelletier,
and R. Connor. The effects of land-use change on larval insect
communities in Costa Rican bromeliads.
Technical Reports and others
Dell, T., Friesen M., Hemberg, M., Marshall, J. and B.
Starzomski. 2004. Food webs: pattern and process, theory and
data. Proceedings of the Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe
Institute, June 2004.
Rael, R. and B. Starzomski. 2004. Integrating food web structure and
dynamics: effects of targeted extinction. Proceedings of the
Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, June 2004.
Starzomski, B.M and J. S. Boates. 2001. Framework for Conservation
and Use of Biodiversity in Nova Scotia. 75 pp. Wildlife Division,
Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Kentville, Nova Scotia.
Starzomski, B.M. and J.S. Boates. 2001. Habitat characteristics and
community spatial structure for Species-at-risk elements of Nova Scotia’s
Coastal Plain Plants. 85 pp. Federal Habitat Stewardship Program,
Department of Natural Resources, Kentville, Nova Scotia.
Starzomski, B.M. 2000. Forest Inventory Permanent Sample Plot Data
and its use in Wildlife Habitat Assessment for Nova Scotia. 44
pp. Wildlife Division, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Kentville,
Nova Scotia.
Starzomski,
B.M. 2000. The Paleoclimatic/Paleogeographic History of
Southwestern Nova Scotia and its Implications for Endangered Coastal
Plain Plant Habitat. 12 pp. Wildlife Division Internal Report,
Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Kentville, Nova Scotia.
Starzomski, B.M., A. P. Duke, L. Benjamin. 2000. Deer Pellet
Group Inventory: Plantation and Natural Regeneration Use by
White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Following Harvesting.
11 pp. Wildlife Division Internal Report, Nova Scotia Department of
Natural Resources, Kentville, Nova Scotia.
Starzomski, B.M. 2000. Movement dynamics of the forked fungus
beetle, Bolitotherus cornutus (Panzer). 71 pp. Unpublished M.Sc.
Thesis, Acadia University.
Starzomski, B.M. 1996. Infrared video, microscopic measurements
of metasiculae in the Silurian graptoloid, Comograptus
gorbiachinensis. 85 pp. Unpublished B.Sc. Thesis, Saint Francis
Xavier University.
Book Reviews
Starzomski, B. M. 2004. Berkes, F., J. Colding, and C. Folke. 2003. Navigating
Social-ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Ecology and Society 9(1): 1. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art1
Starzomski, B. M. 2002. Natural Areas Journal 22(4). Conservation
Biology: Research Priorities for the Next Decade. Michael E. Soulé
and Gordon H. Orians (eds.). Island Press, Washington. 307
pp., paper. 2001.
Starzomski, B. M. 2001. Natural Areas Journal 21(2). The Geometry
of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity. Ulf
Dieckmann, Richard Law, Johan A. J. Metz (eds.). Cambridge University
Press, New York. 564 pp., cloth. 2000.
Starzomski, B. M. 2001. Nova Scotia Birds 43(4). Restoring
North America's Birds: Lessons from Landscape Ecology. Robert
A. Askins. Yale University Press. 288pp., cloth. 2000.
